Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager - Pleasanton, CA

VCUBE Product Manager Position available in Pleasanton, CA We are the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage. We are a trusted provider of information infrastructure, helping organizations of every size around the world keep digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We pride ourselves on doing what's right and on putting our customers best interests first. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. We are EMC, where information lives. We are looking for a product manager in the EMC VCUBE group, which offers customers an integrated suite of products to provision and manage mission critical applications in a private, hybrid, or public cloud. This position provides a unique opportunity for a strong technical management professional to help bring complex enterprise software to the cloud. This high impact role will work with our customers, partners, senior management team, user experience group, engineering, architects, marketing, and sales team to define product strategy and ensure its execution. Job responsibilities: Own the strategy, direction, and definition for the VCUBE product and associated user experience Innovate on behalf of customers and partners to define product uses cases Define and communicate product requirements Constantly test and validate product concepts with customers and stakeholders Collaborate closely with interaction designers, architects and other product managers to drive product definition Partner with product marketing to define product strategy, including packaging, pricing, positioning, and competitive analysis Communicate key product benefits, vision and roadmap to prospects, customers, and industry analysts and internal EMC audiences Work with the EMC technology partner ecosystem in all go-to-market areas Qualifications Required: BS or MS in CS or a related technical field. 8+ years of product management, software design, or software development and management experience Be passionate about creating great products and making customers successful Proven ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences Customer-centric approach with a passion for creating great user experiences. Experience with persona driven requirements definition and user-centered design concepts a plus. Strong communications skills: the candidate must have very strong written and verbal communications skills, from writing collateral and presentations through delivering business concepts and technical concepts to a diverse audience-base Demonstrated drive to get things done, leadership, accountability, problem-solving skills, enthusiasm, and work ethic Team-oriented: candidate must enjoy collaborating with a globally distributed team and be able to both lead and participate in projects Highly intelligent, dependable and self-motivated with a track record of rapidly delivering high-quality software Strong leadership, project management skills, time management, and problem solving. Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies Deep knowledge of VMware products, virtualized data centers, and cloud computing would be strongly preferred About EMC VCUBE EMC VCUBE technology brings together best-of-breed technologies from EMC, VMware and RSA to power mission critical applications in a private, hybrid, or public cloud. VCUBE technology is extensively used in the EMC OnDemand hybrid cloud service offering. EMC does not accept unsolicited Agency Resumes. EMC will not pay fees to any third party agency or firm that does not have a signed "EMC Agency Fee Agreement".